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Work Overview

A setting of three poems that have in common the regeneration of
the human spirit after devastation and loss: Anna Akhmatova in
1921 in Saint Petersburg after the Revolution, Kathleen Raine in
London in the early 1940s during the blitz, and Elizabeth Riddell
in Australia also in World War II.

Work Details

Year: 2001

Instrumentation: SSAATTBB choir with soloists.

Duration: 11 min.

Difficulty: Advanced

Contents note: Everything is plundered -- London revisited -- The soldier in the park.